[opirgyork] OPIRG York Events Digest - November 16-23, 2015

[OPIRG York]

Hey

This week's events digest includes the full program for the YFS Mental
Health Awareness Week.   The rest of the week is also full of lots of great
events.  If there is any event related to a social or environmental justice
issue that you would like to see included in future digests you can email
me at naila.opirgyork at gmail.com.  We try to prioritize events happening at
York and in the Jane-Finch community as much as possible.

We are also currently in the process of revamping our volunteer program by
instituting a committee structure to implement outreach and programming
initiatives at OPIRG-York.  If you're interested in volunteering at OPIRG
York, or have any questions, please get in touch with Naila at
naila.opirgyork at gmail.com. We always need volunteers! And stop by the OPIRG
York office anytime -- Room 449C Student Centre!

-- OPIRG York

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*TODAY'S DIGEST:*

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*1) OPIRG York Space committee *

*2) Accept.  Express.  Support:  A YFS Mental Health & Wellness Initiative
– November 16-19, 2015*

*3) YUGSA International Students Week – November 17-19, 2015*

*4) Cinema Politica York presents:  This Changes Everything – November 18,
2015*

*5) Queer Lovers and Hateful Others:  Book Release and Reading at York U –
November 23, 2015*

*6) **Rural Girls CAN Code Jamaica - Indiegogo Campaign*

*7) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE *

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*8) JFAAP General Meeting – November 18, 2015*

*9) National Housing Day – November 20,2015*

*10) Decolonize NOW!  Takes the Streets:  Decolonizing the Square –
November 21, 2015*

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*1) OPIRG York Space Committee*

The OPIRG York space committee is in the process of cleaning out the
office.  If you have any personal items in the office please come by and
pick them as soon as possible.  We are also creating policies around the
use of space at OPIRG.  If you have any input to provide you can email
Naila at naila.opirgyork at gmail.com.


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*2) Accept.  Express.  Support:  A YFS Mental Health & Wellness Initiative
– November 16-19, 2015*

Accept. Express. Support is a YFS campaign that aims to raise awareness,
provide spaces for expression and present a community of support services
focusing on mental health and wellness.

The weeklong series of events will place an emphasis on providing
anti-oppressive spaces with diverse and intersectional perspectives as they
impact mental health and wellness.

Schedule of Events:

Monday November 16, 2015

Community Resources Fair
Time: 10 AM - 4 PM
Place: Vari Hall , Ross Link & Central Square

Learn about community resources surrounding mental health and wellness
organiztions from around the GTA and on campus.

Art Therapy
Time: 10 AM - 1 PM
Place: Vari Hall & Room 313 Student Centre

No Artistic experience needed!
Drop in to engage in Art Therapy based paintin and crafting.

Community Food Kitchen
Time: 1 PM - 2PM
Place: Vari Hall

Join us for some Free Food in Vari Hall to kick off Accept. Express.
Support. Mental Health Initiative.

https://www.facebook.com/events/771806002931024/


<https://www.facebook.com/events/771806002931024/>

Meditation Session
WHEN: 5PM - 6PM
WHERE: Student Centre, Room 313

Join us in this session to learn about meditation techniques for training
your mind and consciousness.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1074904549189217/

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Tuesday November 17, 2015

Crafting, Colouring and Board Games

WHEN: 10 AM - 2 PM
WHERE: Room 313, Student Centre.

Drop in to room 313 in the Student Centre to engage in quiet activities.
We’ll have colouring materials, board games, knitting supplies and button
making materials.

*https://www.facebook.com/events/1656605481263821/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1656605481263821/>*

Mental Health Workshop with CDS & SCLD

WHEN: 2 PM - 4PM
WHERE: Room 313, Student Centre

In this workshop you’ll learn about the mental health resources available
on campus at York University.

*https://www.facebook.com/events/1013301192025386/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1013301192025386/>*

Coffee House & Discussion Group with Active Minds

WHEN: 4 PM
WHERE: Chancellors Room, Student Centre

Join us for coffee, tea, snacks and an open space for conversations and
dialogue surrounding mental wellness.

*https://www.facebook.com/events/418314415033436/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/418314415033436/>*

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*Wednesday November 18, 2015*

Planting Workshop with Deidre "d-lishus" Walton

WHEN: 12 PM - 2 PM
WHERE: Room 313, Student Centre

Learn to garden while experiencing and discussing the health and wellness
benefits that gardening can provide.

*https://www.facebook.com/events/834555383329039/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/834555383329039/>*

Intersectionality & Mental Health
Featuring Kemba King

WHEN: 4 PM - 6 PM
WHERE: Room 313, Student Centre

Join this workshop for discussions about mental health and wellness as it
relates to intersectionality.

*https://www.facebook.com/events/777730862355359/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/777730862355359/>*

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*Thursday November 19, 2015*

TBLGAY Discussion Group

WHEN: 11 AM - 1 PM
WHERE: Chancellor's Room, Student Centre

This session will be a space for queer and trans* students to participate
in facilitated dialogue and conversations.

*https://www.facebook.com/events/538953286258036/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/538953286258036/>*

Historical Trauma & Mental Health

WHEN: 3 PM - 5 PM
WHERE: Room 313, Student Centre

This panel discussion will feature speakers from student groups who will be
discussing marginalized trauma and historical impacts on mental health.

*https://www.facebook.com/events/1064783716879175/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1064783716879175/>*

d'bi young: Performance as Reclamation

Time: 6 PM
Place: Room 140, HNES

d’bi.young anitafrika is an internationally celebrated
African-Jamaican-Canadian artist, educator and originator of wholistic
human development frameworks. Her art explores themes of identity, gender,
sexuality, class and the human experience.
She has worked and lectured extensively internationally, including
addressing the United Nations in 2013, and has published numerous plays,
writings, and dubpoetry albums. d’bi is the Founder & Artistic Director of
Canada’s Watah Theatre Institute, where she teaches the Sorplusi Method as
a transformational tool towards creative and wholistic development.

*https://www.facebook.com/events/1547329002196804/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1547329002196804/>*

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*3) YUGSA International Student Week – November 17-19, 2015*

The York University Graduate Students’ Association (YUGSA) invites you to a
series of events designed primarily for international graduate students,
but all students are welcomed. The International Student Week is a series
of educational and workshop events that deals with raising awareness around
the services available to international graduate students both on and off
campus and the work being done by various organizations to improve these
services. The series of workshops are part of a larger campaign, Fairness
for International Students, which talks about the elimination of
differential fees, incorporation of international students under the
Ontario Health Insurance Program (OHIP) and improving immigration rules for
international students.  All events will take place in the GSA Lounge, Room
430 Student Centre.

Throughout the week, we will be selling tickets (1 for $2, 3 for $5) to win
one of our raffle baskets, and will be announcing the winners at the end of
November. Tickets will be available for purchase at the YUGSA office (325
Student Centre), as well as at each of our scheduled events. 100% of the
proceeds will go toward our International Student Bursary.

Events include information on legal services, student support, mental
health, and a social. A full description of the events can be found here
<http://www.yugsa.ca/international-student-week.html>.



*4) Cinema Politica York presents:  This Changes Everything – November 18,
2015*

On the eve of the Paris Climate Change Conference, Cinema Politica at York
is thrilled to be screening Naomie Klein's eye opening movie "This Changes
Everything". This is a unique opportunity to see this great film. Don't
miss it.



Wednesday November 18

Nat Taylor Cinema, York University

N102 Ross Building

7:00 – 10:00 PM



*https://www.facebook.com/events/1679123249013582/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1679123249013582/>*



*5) Queer Lovers and Hateful Others:  Book Release and Reading at York U –
November 23, 2015*

Please join us for an evening of food and discussion with Dr. Jin
Haritaworn (Assistant Professor of Gender, Race and Environment at York
University) as we celebrate the release of their latest book Queer Lovers
and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places (Pluto Press
http://tinyurl.com/pj8bvha).

Light refreshments will be provided.

Monday November 23

5:30 PM

HNES 140



https://www.facebook.com/events/948984631861750/





*6) Rural Girls CAN Code Jamaica - Indiegogo Campaign*



Rural Girls CAN Code Jamaica is a project to teach girls 7-17 in rural
Jamaica how to code. Information Communication Technology is one of the
fastest growing fields in Jamaica, and girls are essentially left out of
opportunities to learn and participate.  Paula Madden, a PhD Candidate in
Law at Osgoode Hall Law School is asking for support from the York
community to help to bring this project to fruition. You can help by
contribution to our Indiegogo campaign which runs for another 15 days, and
then it goes InDemand and people can still contribute.



Students or anyone interested can make a contribution to the campaign with
as little $5, The link below will get you to the campaign page for more
information and to make a contribution. You can also type in the campaign
title once on Indiegogo “Rural Girls CAN Code Jamaica.”



http://igg.me/at/ruralgirlscodejamaica/x/12007918



*Paula Madden — Founder, Rural Girls Can Code Jamaica*



Paula Madden is a PhD Candidate in Law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York
University. She moved to Toronto from rural Jamaica at the age of eleven.
She trained and worked as a Youth Worker in Toronto before embarking on an
academic career. She has developed and managed several programs for
children and youth in community-based and non-profit organizations. She is
the author of *African Nova Scotian-Mi’kmaw Relations *(Fernwood, 2009).





*7) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE*
*UnderCurrents* - Journal of Critical Environmental Studies

In response to decades of activism and scholarship reflecting crises of
environmental injustice, this issue of *UnderCurrents*asks the questions:
What are the connections across and between environmental and social
movements? How have the commitments of these movements changed over time,
and who has been affected by these shifts? What bonds have been broken and
what new ones have formed? Whose voices are heard, and whose voices are
silenced? In a world facing continued environmental and political crisis,
how can we learn to build alliances and live together for today
and tomorrow?

*UnderCurrents* welcomes *creative and scholarly work*, including *essays,
poetry, photography, visual submissions, video, audio, mixed formats, and
more*.



*Submission Deadline - January 15, 2015*

Please see submission guidelines at:
http://currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/currents/about/submissions

With this issue's theme of *Environmental Justice*, submissions can
contribute to, but are not limited by, areas of:

· Alliance Building

· Animal Studies

· Arts, Activism and the Environment

· Child Poverty, Health, and the Environment

· Classism

· Community Responses to Environmental Disaster and State Violence

· Critical Race and Critical Disability Studies and Activism

· Critical Urban Planning

· Decolonization and Resistance

· Educating for Environmental and Social Justice

· Environmental Health

· Environmental Racism

· Gender and the Environment

· Indigenous Sovereignty

· Migrant Justice

· Mining Justice and Resource Extraction

· Neoliberal Globalization

· Poverty

· Prison-Industrial Complex in Canada

· Reproductive Justice

If you are unsure about whether your work fits the framework of
environmental justice, or if you are interested in joining the
*UnderCurrents* collective, please e-mail us at *currents at yorku.ca
<currents at yorku.ca>* with any questions.



*UnderCurrents* is a collectively- and student-run journal based out of the
Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.*UnderCurrents* explores
the relations of environment, culture and society, and publishes one
thematic issue per year. We are committed to publishing a variety of
scholarly, creative and activist work that critically engages with
conceptions of the environment.



UnderCurrents Editorial Collective

Faculty of Environmental Studies

York University

currents at yorku.ca



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*8) JFAAP General Meeting – November 18, 2015*

JFAAP general meeting will be on Wednesday November 18 at 6pm at Seneca
College in Yorkgate Mall (North West corner of Jane and Finch) Room 218/219
(2nd floor of the mall).  JFAAP meets on the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every
month. New members are always welcome!

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*9) National Housing Day – November 20,2015*

Join the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario and the Right to Housing
Coalition in Toronto for a march and People’s Assembly on Friday November
20th to mark National Housing Day!



1:00am - March!
Location: meet outside the Superior Court of Justice, 361 University Ave.
(north of Queen St. W)
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/cCKVUGhuTso
<https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2Fmaps%2FcCKVUGhuTso&h=PAQFOc0Xp&enc=AZO3FQuUK5YjvFhx8HcWiQPZjy8gkq-pMiF_Ezp_E4FsqCVH3pLJpvw6Xxs-CrSc1U4&s=1>

12:30pm–3:30pm - People’s Assembly!
Location: Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square (behind Eaton
Centre)
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/VMsMntfhdNC2
Rise up, speak up! Be a “spect-actor” in our legislative theatre chambers
and join our collective voices for an end to the affordable housing and
homelessness crisis!
WATCH a short play based on local community members’ lived experiences of
homelessness and housing struggles. ACT onstage to offer alternative
solutions to this systemic problem – on the individual, institutional and
government levels. PROPOSE policy ideas which will be heard by housing
advocates, policymakers, legislators and others witnessing the process.
VOTE on the laws you want to see passed.
** An interactive performance/community dialogue performed and facilitated
by Branch Out Theatre. **

Free - all welcome! Wheelchair accessible. ASL interpretation provided. A
light, hot lunch will be served at Church of the Holy Trinity at 12:00pm.



https://www.facebook.com/events/420537858147673/



*10) Decolonize NOW!  Takes the Streets:  Decolonizing the Square –
November 21, 2015*



Decolonize NOW! will be hosting three street actions for the purpose of
building unity between our movements as Black and Indigenous peoples,
People of Colour and white allies. As we take to the streets we will be
launching our Divest to Decolonize: Invest in Justice Campaign as a first
joint initiative to raise awareness about past and present colonialism, to
negatively impact the finances of the most oppressive industries, and place
pressure on the government to address our List of Demands.

DECOLONIZING THE SQUARE: ARTISTIC ACTION AT DUNDAS SQUARE
Saturday November 21st 2pm



https://www.facebook.com/events/999578253419028/
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